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During a drive, a character in this film returns to the train station to get her umbrella and accidentally starts a brawl between her cabbie and the owner of an apple cart. Characters who die in the second half of this film are held by their feet and dropped onto passing trains. In this film, a so-called “Major” (15[1])chases an escaped parrot named General Gordon onto the roof. A hulking ex-boxer in this film catches his (*) cello case on the door, causing it to burst open with thousands of bills. In this film, “Professor” Marcus and his cronies play a record of Bocherinni’s celebrated minuet to pretend to practice as a string quintet. (10[1])For 10 points, in what Ealing comedy does an oblivious old woman rent rooms to a gang of robbers? ■END■ (0[1])

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